Submission system

Learning-on-the-Job grant

Deadline: Tuesday, Jun 3, 2025, 11:00am

The Learning-on-the-Job scholarship offers dissertation supervisors the opportunity to apply for a scholarship for doctoral/Ph.D. candidates.

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Remaining places: ERASMUS+ und WORLDWIDE EXCHANGE study places summer semester 2026

Deadline: Sunday, Jun 15, 2025, 11:00pm

Applications for an ERASMUS+ or World Wide Exchange study exchange (remaining places) in the summer semester 2026 are now open.

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Art School Alliance (ASA) Kumasi, Ghana

Deadline: Sunday, Sep 28, 2025, 11:00pm

The Art School Alliance offers one student from the Academy (Institute for Fine Arts) to study tuition-free at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; College of Art and Built Environment (Kumasi, Ghana) in the Summer semester 2026.

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CALL Publication Series 2025 for text-based publications

Deadline: Wednesday, Oct 15, 2025, 11:00am

The Rectorate is now opening the call for submissions for new, text-based volumes of the publication series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The call is aimed at employees (including project staff) and students of the Academy.

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FWF Open Access Block Grant

Deadline: Wednesday, Dec 31, 2025, 11:00am

Funding is available for publication costs (ACP's) for free access (Golden Open Access) to quality-assured (peer-reviewed) journal articles or anthology contributions that result in whole or in part from FWF-funded projects.

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Dissertation projects on the Academy's website

Deadline: Thursday, Dec 31, 2026, 11:00am

This call is addressed to all doctoral students of the Academy of Fine Arts whose dissertation agreement has already been approved and serves to collect dissertation projects for the new Academy website.

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Invited competition for the initiative "Demokratie leben"

Deadline: Thursday, Jun 5, 2025, 05:00pm

Together for a pluralistic, liberal and tolerant society, a free art and culture scene and a living togehter in solidarity in Austria!
Artistic subjects for a cooperation between Gewista and the Academy on digital Citylights in public spaces wanted.

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Exhibit Gallery - exhibition projects spring & autumn 2026

Deadline: Wednesday, Jun 18, 2025, 11:00am

Proposals are now being accepted for one exhibition project to be presented at the Exhibit Gallery on Schillerplatz in either spring or fall 2026. The call is aimed at people within the Academy as well as graduates and external curators.

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Art School Alliance - SUNY Purchase (USA) summer semester 2026

Deadline: Sunday, Sep 28, 2025, 11:00pm

The Art School Alliance (ASA) offers one student of the Institute of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, to study one semester tuition-free at SUNY PURCHASE College (USA) in the summer semester 2026.

More information: https://www.purchase.edu/offices/global-education/inbound-exchange-students/; 4207-2022-2023-purchase-college-exchange-student; 4473-2023-spring-cost-sheet-for-inbound-ex (purchase.edu)

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Art School Alliance (ASA) HFBK Hamburg

Deadline: Sunday, Nov 30, 2025, 11:00pm

The Art School Alliance (ASA) offers a student of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna to live and study for one semester at the HFBK Hamburg without paying rent or study fees. Studio apartments have been provided.

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Grant for Open Access Publication Costs of the Academy

Deadline: Wednesday, Dec 31, 2025, 11:00am

The Academy's Open Access Publication Fund aims to promote (Gold) Open Access of academic publications that are the result of research activities at the Academy or are not covered by third-party-funded projects at the Academy.

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Short term grants abroad

Deadline: Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025, 11:00am

The scholarship for a short-term stay abroad for doctoral/Ph.D. candidates supports stays abroad for e.g. research, field research, archival research, interviews, which are necessary for the dissertation or the Ph.D. project.

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Residency at Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga

Deadline: Friday, Jun 20, 2025, 01:00pm

We are pleased to invite students and recent graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna to apply for a 6-month residency in Riga, Latvia, as part of the SPOT Exchange: Latvia–Austria program.

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Prize for Best Research Catalogue Exposition 2024/2025 of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Deadline: Tuesday, Oct 7, 2025, 11:00am

This prize rewards outstanding contributions to the Research Catalogue (i.e. RC Expositions) by staff and students of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. We are looking for published RC contributions from the years 2024 and 2025.

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Universidad Gastón Dachary, Posadas, Argentina

Deadline: Sunday, Nov 30, 2025, 11:00pm

Our new partner university, the Universidad Gastón Dachary in Posadas, Argentina, offers a student from Fine Arts or Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna the opportunity to study tuition-free in the summer semester of 2026.

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Travel Allowances for Ph.D. Candidates

Deadline: Wednesday, Dec 31, 2025, 11:00am

The travel allowances support regular doctoral students of the Academy in presenting dissertation/Ph.D. project results at international conferences and symposia or in the presentation of art projects.

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Exchange Companions at International Office

Deadline: Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025, 12:00pm

The International Office is looking for two student assistants for the academic year 2025/26.

The call is addressed to senior students at the Academy who are interested in helping exchange students during their stay in Vienna.

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Scholarship Early Post Doc Applications 2025

Deadline: Tuesday, Sep 16, 2025, 11:00am

The Scholarship for Early Post Doc Applications aims to support early postdocs in the application for their initial postdoctoral research project.

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Art School Alliance (ASA) CAA Hangzhou

Deadline: Sunday, Oct 12, 2025, 11:00pm

The Art School Alliance offers one student from the Academy (Institute for Fine Arts) to study tuition-free at the China Academy of Art (CAA) Hangzhou (China) in the summer semester 2026.

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Going Book: Grant for Publication Costs

Deadline: Monday, Jun 30, 2025, 11:00am

The "Going Book" publication grant supports quality-assured (peer-reviewed) academic book publications by members of the Academy. Submissions are possible on an ongoing basis. All employees and doctoral candidates are eligible to participate. The call especially encourages young researchers to submit.

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Temporary Financial Aid

Deadline: Thursday, Jan 1, 2026, 11:00am

The temporary financial aid serves regular students who find themselves in an unforeseeable social situation of need which is not self-inflicted and where state subsidies are not available.

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